Just The Council's Job?

摘要

The response that we at CleanupUK are frequently faced with from residents as we go about our work is: "Cleaning up litter? It's the council's job". Well, yes, cleaning the streets at regular intervals is indeed the council's job, and they do a pretty good job of it on the whole, especially in the face of deep budget cuts and the pressures that brings. But we believe that it is important that residents play their part in the fight against litter. This is an approach that was supported in the 2012 research commissioned by Newcastle City Council and carried out by Newcastle University. One of the research paper's proposals was that "the next step in addressing problems such as littering may be to gain greater involvement from people at street level in the upkeep of their neighbourhoods".